Fishing plug



Dec. 7 1926. 7 1,610,204

c. w. DONHOLT FI SHING PLUG Filed May 11, 1925 WITNESS uvmvmn.

M cqfles k W Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

CHARLES W. DONHOLT, OF MIDLAND PARK, NEW JERSEY.

rrsame PLUG.

' Application'filed Mayll, 1925. Serial No. 29,330.

This invention relates to fish lures and it has for its principal object to provide a lure of the rotary propeller type which shall be proof against the catching of grass 5 or weeds between the rotary and fixed parts thereof and at the same time shall be inexpensive to manufacture and so constructed that its rotary part will be quite sensitive to rotation when the device is drawn through the water.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central sectional view thereof; and

5 Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the head or rotating member thereof.

There are two main parts to the lure, the relatively fixedfor non-rotating after body part a and the rotary forward body part b.

: Both parts may be made of wood and they respectively have theirrear and, forward ends rounded as shown and their adjoining ends cut ofi square.

The member including the rearward part a has an axial bore a in which is tightly fitted a metal tube 0 having both ends upset, as shown, the rear end coinciding with the bottom or forward end of a hole a drilled axially into part a from the rear. This member also includes a stem or wire (1 which extends through the tube 0, having its end formed with eyes d (1 the end having eye d being jammed into the hole a so that the stem cannot'turn with respect to part 5 a and the other'end protruding from the tube. Attached to this member, as to the eye d and .to the end eyes e of a cross wire e penetratin part a, are the hooks f.

The mem er including the forward part l I; also has an axial bore 6' in which is tightly fitted a metal tube 9 having both ends upset, as shown, the rear end rotruding slightly from the bore andthe 0t er end being fiush with the forwardend of part b. This member also includes a device which telescopes over the part a and has the propeller blades or fins for effecting its rotation. This device, 72., is a metal sleeve which may be formed from tubing having suitber overlaps or telescopes the other memably shaped opposite integral projections 5 h which are bent outwardly and to the proper pitch to serve as the propellers. It fits snugly the rear end of part b so as to project rearwardly therefrom and may be secured in place by brads or pins 2', which it 5 is preferable to introduce directly behind the propellers The sleeve projects rearwardly somewhat further than the tube 9.

The two members are assembled .by s1ipping the forward member over the project-' ing forward end portion of the stem 03 before its forward eyed has been formed. In this arrangement the projecting part of the sleeve of the forward or rotating memher, as shown, this relation being permanently maintained by the eye d Said projecting part or skirt of the sleeve thus serves to pre-- vent grass or weeds from having access between the members so that any fouling of the lure in that way is entirely" prevented.

It will be noted that the tubes 0 and g bear against each other and that since the latter tube 9 projects from the forward member a metal-to-metal contact or thrust 7 bearing is afforded, avoiding the face-toface contact of parts a and b and consequently so appreciably reducing 'the friction that would otherwise exist that the forgard member will spin with perfect freeom. I

j is simply a swivel or other connection attached to eye d and serving as means to connect the lure t0 the line.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim. and desire to secure b Letters Patent -is:

In a fish lure, the combination of a relatively fixed rearward member having a forwardly projecting axial stem, and a forward 7 membcrrevoluble on said stem and having propelling means, each member having an axial tube fixed therein and one tube projecting and abutting the other and thereby forming a thrust bearing between the 95 members.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

- CHARLES W. DONHOLT. 

